scholarly journals Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Wavelength Dependence

2005 ◽  
Vol 633 (2) ◽  
pp. 638-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Wilhite ◽  
Daniel E. Vanden Berk ◽  
Richard G. Kron ◽  
Donald P. Schneider ◽  
Nicholas Pereyra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelength Dependence ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Variability ◽  
Sky Survey

scholarly journals A multiwavelength study of spiral structure in galaxies. I. General characteristics in the optical

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (1) ◽  
pp. 390-409
Author(s):  
Sergey Savchenko ◽  
Alexander Marchuk ◽  
Aleksandr Mosenkov ◽  
Konstantin Grishunin
Keyword(s):  
Pitch Angle ◽  
Spiral Structure ◽  
Wavelength Dependence ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Galactocentric Distance ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Grand Design ◽  
Generation Mechanisms ◽  
Spiral Arm

ABSTRACT Different spiral generation mechanisms are expected to produce different morphological and kinematic features. In this first paper in a series, we carefully study the parameters of spiral structure in 155 face-on spiral galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in the three gri bands. We use a method for deriving a set of parameters of spiral structure, such as the width of the spiral arms, their fraction to the total galaxy luminosity, and their colour, which have not been properly studied before. Our method is based on an analysis of a set of photometric cuts perpendicular to the direction of a spiral arm. Based on the results of our study, we compare the main three classes of spirals: grand design, multi-armed, and flocculent. We conclude that: (i) for the vast majority of galaxies (86 per cent), we observe an increase of their arm width with Galactocentric distance; (ii) more luminous spirals in grand design galaxies exhibit smaller variations of the pitch angle with radius than those in less luminous grand design spirals; (iii) grand design galaxies show less difference between the pitch angles of individual arms than multi-armed galaxies. Apart from these distinctive features, all three spiral classes do not differ significantly by their pitch angle, arm width, width asymmetry, and environment. Wavelength dependence is found only for the arm fraction. Therefore, observationally we find no strong difference (except for the view and number of arms) between grand design, multi-armed, and flocculent spirals in the sample galaxies.

scholarly journals Spectral variability of quasars from multi-epoch photometric data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82

2010 ◽  
Vol 525 ◽  
pp. A37 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Meusinger ◽  
A. Hinze ◽  
A. de Hoon
Keyword(s):  
Photometric Data ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Variability ◽  
Sky Survey

scholarly journals Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. The CivLine

2006 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Wilhite ◽  
Daniel E. Vanden Berk ◽  
Robert J. Brunner ◽  
Jonathan V. Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Variability ◽  
Sky Survey

scholarly journals Spectral variability of a sample of extreme variability quasars and implications for the Mg ii broad-line region

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (4) ◽  
pp. 5773-5787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Yang ◽  
Yue Shen ◽  
Yu-Ching Chen ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
James Annis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Variability ◽  
Dark Energy Survey ◽  
Line Region ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Balmer Lines ◽  
Extreme Variability ◽  
Single Epoch ◽  
Energy Survey

ABSTRACT We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the g band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Dark Energy Survey epochs (separated by a few years in the quasar rest frame). These EVQs are selected from quasars in the SDSS Stripe 82 region, covering a redshift range of 0.5 < z < 2.1. Nearly half of these EVQs brightened significantly (by more than 0.5 mag in the g band) in a few years after reaching their previous faintest state, and some EVQs showed rapid (non-blazar) variations of greater than 1–2 mag on time-scales of only months. To increase sample statistics, we use a supplemental sample of 33 EVQs with multi-epoch spectra from SDSS that cover the broad Mg ii λ2798 line. Leveraging on the large dynamic range in continuum variability between the multi-epoch spectra, we explore the associated variations in the broad Mg ii line, whose variability properties have not been well studied before. The broad Mg ii flux varies in the same direction as the continuum flux, albeit with a smaller amplitude, which indicates at least some portion of Mg ii is reverberating to continuum changes. However, the full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of Mg ii does not vary accordingly as continuum changes for most objects in the sample, in contrast to the case of the broad Balmer lines. Using the width of broad Mg ii to estimate the black hole mass with single epoch spectra therefore introduces a luminosity-dependent bias.

scholarly journals SPECTRAL VARIABILITY OF FIRST BRIGHT QSOs WITH SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY OBSERVATIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 759 (2) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Hao Bian ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Richard Green ◽  
Chen Hu
Keyword(s):  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Variability ◽  
Sky Survey

Intrinsic Characteristics of Quasars Redshifts

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-661
Author(s):  
Waleed Elsanhoury
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Magnitude ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Sky Survey

Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS catalog, some intrinsic characteristics of Quasars (10,000 points) are developed of these are the strong correlations between redshifts and other parameters, e.g. combined magnitude, luminosity, and absolute magnitude .Moreover ,the Karlsson peak of our sample is also computed.

scholarly journals Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16

2021 ◽  
Vol 504 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Abhijeet Anand ◽  
Dylan Nelson ◽  
Guinevere Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Formation Rate ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Gas Absorption ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Optical Continuum ◽  
Circumgalactic Medium ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies ◽  
Red Galaxies

ABSTRACT In order to study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies we develop an automated pipeline to estimate the optical continuum of quasars and detect intervening metal absorption line systems with a matched kernel convolution technique and adaptive S/N criteria. We process ∼ one million quasars in the latest Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compile a large sample of ∼ 160 000 Mg ii absorbers, together with ∼ 70 000 Fe ii systems, in the redshift range 0.35 < zabs < 2.3. Combining these with the SDSS DR16 spectroscopy of ∼1.1 million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and ∼200 000 emission line galaxies (ELGs), we investigate the nature of cold gas absorption at 0.5 < z < 1. These large samples allow us to characterize the scale dependence of Mg ii with greater accuracy than in previous work. We find that there is a strong enhancement of Mg ii absorption within ∼50 kpc of ELGs, and the covering fraction within 0.5rvir of ELGs is 2–5 times higher than for LRGs. Beyond 50 kpc, there is a sharp decline in Mg ii for both kinds of galaxies, indicating a transition to the regime where the CGM is tightly linked with the dark matter halo. The Mg ii-covering fraction correlates strongly with stellar mass for LRGs, but weakly for ELGs, where covering fractions increase with star formation rate. Our analysis implies that cool circumgalactic gas has a different physical origin for star-forming versus quiescent galaxies.

The Quest for Relics: Massive compact galaxies in the local Universe

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S359) ◽  
pp. 441-443
Author(s):  
F. S. Lohmann ◽  
A. Schnorr-Müller ◽  
M. Trevisan ◽  
R. Riffel ◽  
N. Mallmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Redshift ◽  
Control Sample ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Integral Field Spectroscopy ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Size Evolution ◽  
Compact Galaxies ◽  
Minor Mergers ◽  
Significant Size ◽  
Integral Field

AbstractObservations at high redshift reveal that a population of massive, quiescent galaxies (called red nuggets) already existed 10 Gyr ago. These objects undergo a significant size evolution over time, likely due to minor mergers. In this work we present an analysis of local massive compact galaxies to assess if their properties are consistent with what is expected for unevolved red nuggets (relic galaxies). Using integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data from the MaNGA survey from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we characterized the kinematics and properties of stellar populations of massive compact galaxies, and find that these objects exhibit, on average, a higher rotational support than a control sample of average sized early-type galaxies. This is in agreement with a scenario in which these objects have a quiet accretion history, rendering them candidates for relic galaxies.

scholarly journals The weak imprint of environment on the stellar populations of galaxies

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (4) ◽  
pp. 4469-4490 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Trussler ◽  
Roberto Maiolino ◽  
Claudia Maraston ◽  
Yingjie Peng ◽  
Daniel Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Satellite Galaxies ◽  
Projected Distance ◽  
Environmental Dependence

ABSTRACT We investigate the environmental dependence of the stellar populations of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7). Echoing earlier works, we find that satellites are both more metal-rich (<0.1 dex) and older (<2 Gyr) than centrals of the same stellar mass. However, after separating star-forming, green valley, and passive galaxies, we find that the true environmental dependence of both stellar metallicity (<0.03 dex) and age (<0.5 Gyr) is in fact much weaker. We show that the strong environmental effects found when galaxies are not differentiated result from a combination of selection effects brought about by the environmental dependence of the quenched fraction of galaxies, and thus we strongly advocate for the separation of star-forming, green valley, and passive galaxies when the environmental dependence of galaxy properties are investigated. We also study further environmental trends separately for both central and satellite galaxies. We find that star-forming galaxies show no environmental effects, neither for centrals nor for satellites. In contrast, the stellar metallicities of passive and green valley satellites increase weakly (<0.05 and <0.08 dex, respectively) with increasing halo mass, increasing local overdensity and decreasing projected distance from their central; this effect is interpreted in terms of moderate environmental starvation (‘strangulation’) contributing to the quenching of satellite galaxies. Finally, we find a unique feature in the stellar mass–stellar metallicity relation for passive centrals, where galaxies in more massive haloes have larger stellar mass (∼0.1 dex) at constant stellar metallicity; this effect is interpreted in terms of dry merging of passive central galaxies and/or progenitor bias.

scholarly journals CONSTRAINTS ON THE SHAPE OF THE MILKY WAY DARK MATTER HALO FROM JEANS EQUATIONS APPLIED TO SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DATA

2012 ◽  
Vol 758 (1) ◽  
pp. L23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah R. Loebman ◽  
Željko Ivezić ◽  
Thomas R. Quinn ◽  
Fabio Governato ◽  
Alyson M. Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Sky Survey
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